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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

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